Posted on 01/17/2024 9:13:18 AM PST by bimboeruption
While EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised Ukrainian “democratic institutions” and promised more billions for the NATO proxy war in her speech before the EU Parliament, AfD MEP Bernhard Zimniok blasted von der Leyen and the EU for stonewalling the death of US journalist Gonzalo Lira and called for an independent investigation. Official Ukrainian spokesperson Michael “Sarah” Cirillo continued to mock the dead US journalist on Twitter/X.
“The case of US journalist Gonzalo Lira, who died in a Ukrainian prison last week, shows that Ukraine has nothing in common with our values,“ MEP Bernhard Zimniok said in the EU Parliament today. “He was arrested repeatedly for his critical reporting on Ukraine’s leadership, tortured severely, and suffered from double pneumonia for the last three months. He was nonetheless denied medical treatment, leading to his death at the age of 55. I call for an independent investigation of his case led by the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) and an immediate end to all support for the corrupt state of Ukraine,” Zimniok said.
“Let’s return to the negotiating table and end the suffering of the Ukrainian people. Their continued suffering is your fault!” Zimniok told the EU Parliament. Zimniok is a member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and belongs to the patriotic Identity & Democracy group in the EU Parliament.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was established 1995 after the end of the Cold War as a forum to bring the NATO nations together with the former Soviet and Warsaw Pact states and foster peace and dialogue with the former Communist East Bloc. It has since been sidelined by expansionist NATO warmongers led by US Deputy SecState Victoria Nuland and the Biden cabal.
“The democratic institutions in Ukraine not only meet our requirements but also fulfill the hopes of the people in the country,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen brazenly claimed in her speech before the EU Parliament today. “An entire nation shows us what Europe means to them. And I am proud that our union has not disappointed the expectations of Ukraine,” von der Leyen said.
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Von der Lying did not mention the death of the US journalist at the hands of Ukraine’s “democratic institutions.”
Rumble host Russell Brand will be reporting on the death of Gonzalo Lira on his show today at 12 pm ET.
With the confirmed death of Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine, today’s show will be on the importance of independent journalism AND the impossibility of it, if you oppose the agenda of the powerful
See you at 12pm ET on @rumblevideo pic.twitter.com/K9rQr4WKFu
— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) January 17, 2024
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) blasted the “deliberate silence” of OSCE Media Freedom Representative Teresa Ribeiro regarding Gonzalo Lira’s death in Ukrainian prison.
“It is not surprising that this blatant example of repression remained without reaction by the U.S. Mission to OSCE, who are usually very concerned about the rights of the “right” media, the MFA wrote:
“However, we are already accustomed to such pathological hypocrisy both from some OSCE functionaries and countries that consider themselves “model democracies.” After all, the “collective West” has long given carte blanche to cancel, persecute and murder with impunity undesirable reporters who disseminate an alternative point of view on global situation.”
The Russian Embassy in South Africa wrote that Gonzalo Lira “was among the first to start telling the truth” about the reality on the ground in Ukraine. “And he paid it with his life.”
He was among the first to start telling the truth about the special military operation in #Ukraine directly from Ukraine. And he paid it with his life. RIP #GonzaloLira
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And why would the Russians who’ve been in Bucha for 4 weeks, and they allowed everybody to use their… pic.twitter.com/UiNLUO8MbV
— Russian Embassy in South Africa (@EmbassyofRussia) January 17, 2024
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Army Spokesman Michael “Sarah” Cirillo kept denying any responsibility for Lira’s death, while misunderstanding the point of our Freedom of Information Act request to make himself the issue.
The point of Gateway Pundit’s FOIA request is to find out what the US government did or did not do on behalf of Gonzalo Lira, Mr. Cirillo, especially Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
The point is not to provide you another forum to play dress-up, grandstand for the corrupt Zelensky regime and mock your dead victim. Justice is coming.
Feel free to keep sharing our articles and raising awareness about your callous indifference to Gonzalo Lira’s death, however.
Why would I apologize about anything regarding Gonzalo Lira, @gatewaypundit
Why file a FOIA? Just have @JDVance1 or one of his buddies call me to testify.
His defenders won’t like the truth about the Gonzalo Lira case but facts are facts and I don’t lie. pic.twitter.com/uDIN1DI7m8
— S. Ashton-Cirillo (@SarahAshtonLV) January 16, 2024
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SLAVA GONZALO!
Her grandpa was a Nazi. She was busy speaking to Klaus Schwab whose dad was a Nazi. And Lira was killed by her Ukrainian Nazis. Of course she approves.
Along with Gyorgy Schwartz, an actual nazi collaborator.
The Ukes need to man up. It took them nearly 2 years to denazify that clown.
So, she didn’t say anything about the death of an admitted pedophile who was only in prison because he tried to flee the country while under house arrest? The guy who, absolutely without a shadow of doubt tried to help the Russians? The guy who was already in very poor health? That guy?
Nice democratic institutions with suspended elections and killing of those who question the narrative of the Ukrainian regime.
In this video, Soros says the happiest time of his life was working for the Nazis during WW2.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2uibq5
“So, she didn’t say anything about the death of an admitted pedophile who was only in prison because he tried to flee the country while under house arrest?>
Who’s the “admitted pedophile” you’re talking about?
>Nice democratic institutions with suspended elections and killing of those who question the narrative of the Ukrainian regime.<
A wet dream of the leftists in our country.
Bullcrap. He was not a pedo, much less an admitted one. And he was under house arrest for pointing out that Ukraine cannot win and sanctions aren’t hurting Russia very much.
Too bad he didn’t escape to freedom. Your 4th Reich buddies caught him.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
He was in that hospital because he returned to Ukraine. The fact that he returned to Ukraine means he left Ukraine and came back. He left because he was caught spying for Russia and self deported. Then on his round table pretended he was in Kharkiv he was really living in the Netherlands.
Notwithstanding where he really was before going back to Ukraine, the fact that his returning to Ukraine after leaving is not a problem for his supporters is confusing to me. But then I don't trust bad liars or spend my time watching stopped clocks for the few times they are right. So I guess the answers to these questions will confuse me as well.
Who is going to investigate his death, on what evidence, in what way, in a war zone? Also, investigations tend to get evidence going more than one way.
A fellow American died of WILLFUL NEGLECT and you can do nothing more than disrespect him because he did not glorify your hero Zelensky. Your soul is MIDGET sized and diseased.
Lira was a malicious person. He died because real life finally caught up to him.
Won’t happen.
We live in a world where a nations “justice department” is an oxymoron. These government organizations pick and choose what they enforce, how, and when and some individuals rights are completely unimportant.
This guy is a US citizen and a journalist and our awesome DOJ and FBI will do NOTHING.
Just like they didn’t do anything after Kashoggi (Saudi Arabia is to economically important for the US): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45812399
Just like they won’t do anything to dozens of guys that had sexual relations with under age girls, Epstein (these are the political and economic elite, the oligarchs that are in part running the country): https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cl7003r72r4t
BUT... if you protested on January 6, 2021 in Washington DC, they will devote a huge part of the FBI to go through meta data and using cell phones identify everyone that was there (Geo-locate), they will look at airline and bank data (airline tickets and bank usage), even use facial recognition in a massive database they have created to identify everyone and pay them a visit.
Justice in the West et al. has become not much unlike it was in the former East block when the wall was still up. It doesn’t enforce the laws and isn’t guided by some higher foundational law such as a Constitution. It’s political, economic interests have a say, it’s highly inconsistent, and your rights as an individual matter little.
This is an “Animal Farm” with a bogus Constitution, the pigs which in reality run it, and the dogs (so called justice) that make sure things run according to the pigs direction. But that’s not something kids read today.
https://www.kletskous.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/allanimalsare.jpeg
Ukraine is a nation the pigs wanted in the EU. They didn’t ask any citizen of Germany, France, Italy, what they think, nope the pigs decided that. The pigs also wanted Ukraine in NATO, since this organization provides the physical security for the capital and investments in Ukraine but it also gives the US a say since our primary influence in Europe is through security matters, i.e. NATO. No one asked the average American what they wanted, heck they never even ran it through Congress. The pigs just decided: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-zelenskiy-holding-talks-with-biden-adviser-says-2021-12-09/ And what that means for the Russians? F them.
But since the pigs own the media, and they own big tech, and the government more or less works for them (politicians and the political parties need money and media coverage), they get what they want. Ukraine has nothing to worry about unless they lose the favor of the pigs. If you want to know who the pigs are, just look at Davos and see who attends. If the pigs no longer see a value in Ukraine, then this place is finished and that is what we’re beginning to see. Once the pigs no longer stand to gain and Ukraine becomes a pure economic and political liability, they will get dropped and that’s what’s starting to happen.
But while Ukraine has a value, they can ban opposition parties, shut down radio stations, cancel elections, use their police and intel service in the most draconian manner imaginable against any political resistance, throw journalists in prison, assassinate an opposition party head, mass censor their Internet and print media, psyop the crap out of everyone, and you’ll have Facebook in the West allowing neo Nazi material to be posted in support of the greater cause which we’re ironically told is in part about “democracy:” https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/
Ukraine,
Elections canceled: https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-ukraine-war-2024-presidential-elections-1841443
Journalists, bloggers, photo reporters, that say the wrong thing thrown in prison (Lira is one on MANY):
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-confirms-american-journalist-detained-in-ukraine/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/american-dating-coach-turned-blogger-gonzalo-lira-dies-in-ukraine
Opposition parties banned: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia
TV and radio is under state control: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110577439/zelenskyy-has-consolidated-ukraines-tv-outlets-and-dissolved-rival-political-par
About 21 opposition party members, mayors, or other officials that spoke out have been assassinated:
Mass censorship.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/world/europe/zelensky-journalism-law-free-speech.html
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/12/1107972
It is illegal to own a frigging HAM radio in Ukraine, since you might listen to the wrong thing!
https://www.dx-world.net/amateur-radio-ban-Ukraine/
But I get it, Ukraine is a democracy and that’s why we must help them!!!
Want me to address the “sovereignty” and “human rights” crap arguments used to pretend like we have some moral reason for backing Ukraine?
Ukraine is no better or worse than Russia. They are essentially the same thing, only we had ECONOMIC INTERESTS in Ukraine. We want to also be at the table in Europe as decisions are made, and it is through NATO where we have influence. So we pushed NATO East expansion to the point where it threatens Russia and we then pretend as if we’re so noble because we once again pull these democracy, human rights and sovereignty arguments from our ass, all while we back Saudi Arabia, Jordan, islamists in Syria and Libya and our number one trade partner in the world is the PRC.
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